Alternatively we could help raise mainstream awareness of options such as Dual-Boot and LiveCd (and with *buntu, Puppy and a rare few others the 'install inside Windows' option) as all of these are easy ways for non-techies to keep data intact.
Regards from Tom :) " ________________________________ From: Faldegast ... Thats why you let them try a clean Windows install first. Then when they lost data you blame tell them "It would not have happened if the files was stored in Linux." > > The simplest work-around when installing linux is to setup a dual-boot > > You could also simply save the data. I guess many of those doing Linux > support also have many years of experience with Windows - so you > probably know where the data is. I do. And I back that up and then > wipe the machine. Prior to this I usually use CloneZilla to create an > image. I usually prefer to just make an archive with rar, 7zip or whatever. Then it can easily be extracted to whatever filesystem they are using under /home/user/olddisk As you never know where all those Windows programs store their data its usually not safe to delete stuff like c:\windows. However it should be safe to exclude exe and dll files from the backup. " -- Microsoft has a majority market share https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
